- Brothers and sisters, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Juvenile fiction
Will the truth harm them — or save them?When Nigeria's corrupt military government kills their mother, twelve-year-old Sade and her brother Femi think their lives are over. Out of fear for their safety, their father, an outspoken journalist, decides to smuggle the children out of Nigeria and into London, where their uncle lives.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Beverley Naidoo
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 252
- Publisher
- Penguin Group UK, HarperCollins, HarperTrophy
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141922317
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